Posts Tagged: "magnets"

Board games are always useful to have in the house, but they can also be a little flat. As in, dimensionally; they don’t call them board games for nothing. So ThinkGeek, the ever reliable purveyors of nerd toys, wound up solving that, with a board game of their own design....

The shoelace is a technology we’re all comfortable with, and nobody seriously thinks it should be replaced. But when it comes to certain applications, like running, they’re not exactly optimal. Any knot designed to be untied by hand is eventually just going to unravel by itself, and no one wants...

Magnets are amazing, wonderful thing in many, many ways; they drive everything from the computers we use to the power we need to turn them on. But it’s not often that you see magnets applied to art, which is where Crealev comes in. Magnetic Personality It’s actually pretty simple, once...

No wires, no magic, no special effects. Yes, this block of metal (actually a magnet) is slowly falling towards the floor thanks to something called Eddy Currents. To be candid this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this effect. But hey, shoot us for posting something that always “draws” a...

Not all of us have luxurious bathrooms with loads of space for all your shower stuff. For those of us with limited space comes these handy Magnetic Shampoo Wrappers that easily holds your shampoo bottles up via magnets. The space-saving adjustable silicone strap wraps around your shampoo bottle and then...

Bike lights are essential to your safety if you’re riding a bike at night, and there’s nothing more annoying, or scarier, than the idea your light might suddenly shut down while you’re riding. The Magnic Light, and we assure you that’s not a typo, solves this problem, by taking batteries...

Ikea furniture is super cheap, mainly because you build it yourself (and it’s made from pretty cheap stuff). Benjamin Vermeulen wants to make it even easier to build your own furniture with his magnetic flat-pack furniture he’s calling MAG – short for Magnetic Assisted Geometry. The new collection features furniture...

Belts are a bit of a pain. They’re hard to adjust, and the technology hasn’t advanced since we decided ropes weren’t fashionable anymore. So, how can we bring the belt to the twenty-first century? With magnets! Magnabelt As you may have guessed, the Magnetic Belt uses, well, magnets to hold...

Origami is, of course, the subtle art of folding paper to create sculpture, first invented by the Japanese centuries ago to entertain annoying hyperactive children at science museums. Magnets are, of course, a basic scientific principle that confuse idiots wearing face paint. The two together form some pretty awesome furniture....

Who isn’t mesmerized by floating thingies? Better yet, what self-proclaimed geek doesn’t want some kind of magnetic levitating gadget to call their own, or see a small amphibian inserted into an extremely powerful magnetic field? We’ve scoured the web and found 12 of the most worthy magnetic levitation projects ever...